Echostar 17 Broadband Antenna

[nelson61]

Echostar has detailed the antenna manufacturers for the new Echostar 17 Broadband satellite launching this summer.

B. New 69 CM Antenna
Hughes proposes to add 1,000,000 Raven Model HNS-AN8-069R 69 centimeter fixed
transmit/receive antennas. This antenna will operate in the 29.25-30 GHz band in the Earth-tospace
direction, and in the 18.3-19.3 GHz and 19.7-20.2 GHz bands in the space-to-Earth
direction. The requested new antenna will provide digital services in conjunction with the
gateway sites for EchoStar 17 under Hughes’s new earth station license in Call Sign E110149.

G. Substitution of Antenna Manufacturer for New 74 CM and 98 CM Antennas
Future antennas of the 74 centimeter and 98 centimeter transmit/receive and temporaryfixed
transmit/receive types will be manufactured by GD Satcom, which acquired Prodelin. All
GD Satcom antennas under the model numbers HNS-AN8-074P and HNS-AN8-098P are
electrically equivalent to the currently-authorized Prodelin antenna models.
H. Increase in the Quantity of 74 CM Transmit/Receive Antennas
Hughes requests authority to increase the number of 74 CM transmit/receive antennas
authorized under Call Sign E060445 from 500,000 units to 2 million units.

Application Narrative

 

[grohgreg]

Just for clarification, you're talking Ka-band satellite TV dishes in item B., and Ka-band satellite internet dishes in items G and H. Right?

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[nelson61]

They say the new small one is the for EchoStar 17 which is KA). EchoStar 17 is broadband (first named Spaceway and then renamed Jupiter and now renamed EchoStar 17) not a TV satellite. The larger ones look to be a rename when Prodelin was sold which also resulted in a name change.

 

[nelson61]

All of the antennas are transmit receive (broadband)

 

[grohgreg]

Ah, I missed the "transmit/receive" descriptive in item B. Wonder why they need both a 27" and a 29".

//greg//